PCB News - The competition of PCB multi-layer board is very fierce

The competition of PCB multi-layer board is very fierce, In the first half of this year, a number of PCB Allegro factories fought a price war, and once cut the price of single- and double-layer boards to staggering single digits, even for free. It can be said that they have played to the level of "no panties left".

However, it didn't last long before someone dropped another "depth bomb" and splashed:
Recently, a PCB Allegro manufacturer with an Internet model: Huaqiu Circuit (formerly "Huaqiang PCB") actually declared: "Multilayer PCB (4-6 layers) free proofing", which caused an uproar in the industry.
Touching the restricted area of proofing, the board factory is afraid of "playing with fire and self-immolation"

The power of this "depth bomb" is not "no charge proofing", but "multi-layer board" no charge proofing, which really shocked the author and doubted its "authenticity".
You know, PCB Allegro factory free proofing is not new, but it is mainly limited to single and double-layer boards. If in the Internet-mode PCB Allegro factory, free multi-layer board proofing is unheard of. Huaqiu Circuit is probably the first company that claims to do so. of.

Multi-layer (4 layers or more) circuit boards, because the cost is much higher than that of single- and double-layer boards, and quality control is difficult. If the customer does not intend to place a "batch order", PCB Allegro manufacturers take into account the return on investment ratio and the value of customer cooperation, usually not Will make multi-layer board samples for customers for nothing, or put forward certain conditions.

In other words, "free proofing of multilayer boards" can be described as a major "forbidden zone" in the Allegro industry.

In combination with the current PCB Allegro industry facing unfavorable factors such as severe environmental protection, expensive labor, shrinking profits, and fierce market competition, Internet Allegro companies dare to use the trick of "losing money to earn yells" to compete with traditional factories, but "excessive force." It is possible to "play with fire and self-immolate" and kill oneself.

The potential of the multi-layer board market has surged, but the contradiction is prominent
Why does Huaqiu Circuit launch free proofing to target "multilayer boards"? The author tried to find the reason from the following points:
Multi-layer boards have high requirements for technical capabilities and management standards, which limit the entry barriers for allegro factories. On the one hand, the number of multi-layer board factories is relatively small, and on the other hand, many traditional multi-layer board factories are "high above all." "Phenomena such as "picking customers" and "high threshold" are common.
This makes small and medium-sized enterprises, which have certain high requirements for product quality but not huge demand, a very embarrassing situation:

The so-called "small factories are not at ease when they are at risk, and large factories ignore the high conditions." Many small and medium-sized enterprises have difficulty finding suitable multilayer board suppliers due to comprehensive consideration of risks, costs, and delivery time. This kind of supply and demand is extremely passive. The contradiction has become more and more prominent with the continuous upgrade of downstream application end product demand and the surge in the potential of the multilayer board market.

This year, Huaqiu Circuits has further improved its process capability by introducing new press lines, X-ray and other equipment. Currently, the lamination has expanded to 12 layers and supports HDI second-stage blind buried via technology; its self-operated factories have also won IATF16949 automotive certification.

Although there is still a gap with the large-scale traditional Allegro factory, Huaqiu Circuit combines the unique advantages of "informatization to improve efficiency, visualized delivery time to improve experience, equipment automation + material standardization + management system to ensure quality" under the combined Internet model, which is matching When small and medium-sized enterprises demand multi-layer board products, they also have considerable cost performance and good market competitiveness.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand from the above analysis: the so-called "multi-layer board free proofing" policy is actually a bold and innovative attempt by Huaqiu Circuit as an Internet-mode PCB Allegro factory, with obvious intentions:
Be ahead of other PCB Allegro factories and drop the deep-water bomb of "free multi-layer board proofing", which not only successfully attracted market attention, but also solved the "urgent urgent" for small and medium-sized enterprises to achieve zero cost, zero risk experience, and compare them. The reliability of the product can be described as killing two birds with one stone.